Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In Indonesia this number drops to nine per cent; in South Africa six per cent; and in India as low as five per cent. With global warming making some regions uninhabitable during the hot season - particularly for vulnerable populations of elderly citizens and those with chronic diseases - cooling solutions will become essential.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In island n ations that are losing their homes to sea-level rise, and in other highly vulnerable countries, there were bitter pills to swallow after global commitments to cut emissions fell far short of the goal to keep global warming to 1.5 More South Africa deals, please. degrees Celsius (2.7°F). billion from the U.K.,

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 28, 2021

This means the banking giant will be legally bound to phase out financing for all coal-fired power and thermal coal mining by 2030 in developed markets, and by 2040 in other markets. But campaigners are concerned that HSBC is still evading questions over its continued financial support of controversial fossil fuel projects globally.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2021

Last week saw a flurry of smaller countries officially submit their new, enhanced Paris Agreement pledges - including Israel, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Namibia, Malaysia, and Malawi - but fresh national climate plans remain absent from a raft of key emitters such as China, India, South Africa, and Saudi Arabia.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2023

Researchers have documented the insects making their homes in higher places that are typically too cool for them, from the tropical highlands of South America to the mountainous but populous regions of eastern Africa. A recent Georgetown University study found them moving upward in sub-Saharan Africa at the rate of 21 feet per year.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is estimated that today’s policy ambitions and targets would likely lead to global warming of around 2.7C Dr Fatima Denton, United Nations University – particular expertise in natural resource management, especially in regards to Africa.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The new initiative provides immediate support to governments committed to the Global Methane Pledge, an unprecedented agreement led by the United States and the European Union to reduce global methane emissions by 30% by 2030, which yesterday gained 24 new country signatories. within reach.”

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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

Last week Wood Mackenzie released an analysis – A delayed energy transition – on the implications of a five-year delay to the energy transition, both on CAPEX spending across segments as well as on the penetration of global warming. The timing of Wood Mackenzie’s analysis is apt.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The effects will be felt most acutely in sub-Saharan Africa, South and East Asia and the Middle East, with a disproportionate impact on areas that are already fragile and on the people who live in them.". Urgent action is needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C °C and to end species decline and environmental destruction.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2024

He said the fight against global warming was “the most important story of our political time” and delivering successful action to combat climate change also “means a free world order”. In particular, this year it is focusing on the measures needed to deliver the COP28 target of tripling renewable energy capacity by 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The EU and Turkey have both unveiled fresh 2030 climate targets in support of the Paris Agreement at the COP27 Climate Summit today, although hopes are already receding that the welcome announcements could inject some much needed urgency into talks that continue to move at a snail's pace. Russia's war against Ukraine will end.

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Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

Emissions of the tiny particles that cause smogs, collectively known as aerosols, are in decline across most of the world — apart from South Asia and Africa. Scientists are concerned that the cleanups will both heat the global atmosphere and lead to more intense regional ocean heat waves. degrees C by 2030, and to more than 0.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Bringing an end to the burning of coal for energy is one of the single biggest priorities if the world is to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C by the end of the century, and has been one of the UK's top priorities in its role as host of COP26.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C A separate report from IPPC scientists last summer warned that global warming is on track to far exceed 2C this century, unless rapid and deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions occur in the coming decades. If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

New analysis warns national climate targets for 2030 point to dangerous warming of 2.4C, as rush for LNG capacity risks further undermining chances of meeting goals of Paris Agreement. Projected global warming in 2100 based on national climate targets announced to date remains at a worryingly high 2.4C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

global warming pathway are to be kept alive. In snap analysis published yesterday, the IEA said it had calculated the impacts of the net zero pledges and emissions targets announced in recent days, and concluded that if national climate pledges are delivered as promised, the planet could potentially limit warming to 1.8C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

For example, two of McKinsey's three recently-developed decarbonis ation pathways to hold global temperature rise below 1.5C require deforestation to decline by 91 per cent by 2030 from 2016 levels; the third requires deforestation to decline by 77 per cent. warming below 66 per cent. This is now settled science.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Global investment needs to rapidly shift away from fossil fuels to green energy throughout the 2020s, but bets against that happening look increasingly risky. In order to cap global warming at 1.5C As scientists have made clear, 2030 is the critical target date if average temperatures are to be capped at the totemic 1.5C

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 12, 2021

The High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature and People has made a pledge to protect 30% of the land and water on Earth by 2030 to slow destruction of nature and species extinctions. The coalition has pledged to invest billions of pounds in the Great Green Wall of Africa project and the launch of the new Terra Carta by Prince Charles.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

OECD countries must phase out existing coal by 2030, with all others following suit by 2040. By 2030, solar and wind capacity should quadruple and renewable energy investments should triple to maintain a net zero trajectory by mid-century. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5°C No one is safe.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The report also reveals that air quality funding is distributed unequally, with countries hardest hit by air pollution in Africa and Latin America receiving only five and 10 per cent of aid funding, respectively. OECD countries must phase out existing coal by 2030, with all others following suit by 2040.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

New report warns world is 'heading in wrong direction' post-pandemic resulting in a 48 per cent chance the global 1.5C There is now a near 50-50 chance of global warming temporarily rising above the totemic 1.5C warming trajectory, the report emphasises. temperature goal could be temporarily breached in next five years.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

warming between 2030 and 2052. The rate at which humanity is degrading the natural world is further underscored in a second study released today, which finds that an area of forest totalling 43 million hectares - almost twice the size of the UK - has been wiped out by deforestation in key global hotspots in just 13 years.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

In order to deliver decarbonisation in line with the Paris Agreement, the global power sector needs to make the greatest progress over the next decade, cutting emissions by 57 per cent against 1990 levels by 2030 and 89 per cent by 2040, according to BNEF's analysis.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Renewables capacity in Europe and North America grew by 57.3GW and 29.1GW, respectively, while Africa added 2.7GW of capacity, delivering a marginal year-on-year increase. The strong business case of renewables coupled with enabling policies has sustained an upward trend of their share in the global energy mix year on year," he added.

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

In countries such as Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, South Africa, and Spain, solar PV plus storage is expected to compete on cost with fossil gas power by 2030, it states, with standalone wind and solar power likely to compete with gas even sooner in many regions, reaching parity in the mid to late 2020s.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But today's agreement is a big step forward and, critically, we have the first ever international agreement to phase down coal and a roadmap to limit global warming to 1.5 The task of COP26 was to make decisive progress towards halving global emissions by 2030 to keep alive the hope of limiting global warming to 1.5

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

The scale of this challenge is huge - both in the UK and globally. According to Power for All, by 2030, the entire distributed renewable energy value chain, including sales, installation, service, appliances, and operations and maintenance - is projected to create 4.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Even in a world with low greenhouse gas emissions - warming below 1.6C Under the same conditions, people in Africa's tropical regions are projected to lose between three to 41 per cent of their fisheries' yield by the end of the century due to local extinctions of marine fish.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Nor does the final outcome put the world anywhere close to a pathway that could limit global average temperature rise to 1.5C Indeed, for that global emissions must be cut in half by 2030, yet as it stands they are on course to rise 13.7 by the end of the century, and thereby avoid the very worst climate scenarios.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

"Today's stark report from the IPCC is a reminder to the world about how climate change is affecting our planet, underlining that we need to go further and faster to adapt and generate more clean power to reduce countries' exposure to expensive global gas prices, embracing the commitments of the Glasgow Climate Pact. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

alive', including plans for a UN Secretary General meeting with world leaders next year, requests for a UN report on NDC progress annually and a report on long term decarbonisation strategies, and plans for an annual high-level ministerial round table on pre-2030 ambition. without nature," she said. "It

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

National Academy of Sciences that explicitly warned of the risks human-induced global warming could pose to earth’s weather and “ecological balances,” the U.S.-based We believe the actions we are taking to deliver our energy transition strategy are consistent with the court ruling and its end of 2030 timeline.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Last year 119 countries - including the UK - signed up to the Global Methane Pledge, through which governments agreed to take voluntary actions to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030. Saudi Arabia unveils electric vehicle company Ceer.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

And Coca-Cola's aim to reduce Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions by a quarter by 2030 compared to a 2015 baseline is a major step change from its previous targets, as it is clear, promises absolute cuts, and has been validated by the Science Based Target initiative, she argues. Do I feel pressure? I feel very positive pressure.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”. French oil giant TotalEnergies, however, plans to increase its fossil gas sales from 33 percent of its sales in 2019 to 50 percent in 2030.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Our new APAC Network, Advisory Board and Singapore office will bring Asian finance to the heart of GFANZ to help solve this global challenge.". Financial markets in the Asia Pacific region helped jump-start the growth of sustainable investment around the world," said GFANZ co-chair Michael Bloomberg. "We

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